More efficient manufacturing, falling battery costs and intense competition are lowering sticker prices for battery-powered models to within striking distance of gasoline cars.
Electric vehicles were always supposed to be cheaper than ICEs. They’re just giant batteries. All the sophistication is in the software which is trivial to reproduce.
And I honestly don’t want most of it. I just want something to get me to work and back. I don’t need a big screen with lots of doodads, I just need to know charge level and whatnot. I don’t even need to find charging stations, I’ll just charge at home.
Make a stripped down, simple EV for cheap and I’ll probably get it.
Electric vehicles were always supposed to be cheaper than ICEs. They’re just giant batteries. All the sophistication is in the software which is trivial to reproduce.
And I honestly don’t want most of it. I just want something to get me to work and back. I don’t need a big screen with lots of doodads, I just need to know charge level and whatnot. I don’t even need to find charging stations, I’ll just charge at home.
Make a stripped down, simple EV for cheap and I’ll probably get it.
I was referring more to the battery management software.
Ah, ok. I thought you were talking about the AI features, fancy cameras, etc that cars ship with these days.
And humans haven’t found a way to make good batteries, to date